Dr. Chris Evans
Science Fact, 1977

‘Man is about to create a new companion for himself an this planet, a companion who will rival vie with him not for natural resources, but for intellectual supremacy. Man, undisputed master of the earth, may before to long have to step gracefully aside and yield reins of power to a being of his own creation. Contrary to most current scenarios, the 20th century will not be remembered as the era when space was conquered, or the power of the atom harnessed, but that in which there appeared the first machines with minds’.